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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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MK14:
https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/

It makes an interesting read.

It explains how a person of colour, was upset, by the computer system, sending him, an email.
That basically said "automatic slave rekick.".

Which I can understand, made him feel bad.
So, he and another employee, requested and got Twitter, to change their naming policies.

Extract:

--- Quote ---Whitelist becomes allowlist.
Blacklist becomes denylist.
Master/slave becomes leader/follower, primary/replica or primary/standby.
Grandfathered becomes legacy status.
Gendered pronouns (for example "guys") become folks, people, you all, y'all.
Gendered pronouns (for example "he" or "his") become they or their.
Man hours becomes person hours or engineer hours.
Sanity check becomes quick check, confidence check or coherence check.
Dummy value becomes placeholder value or sample value.
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Simon:

--- Quote from: wilfred on July 29, 2020, 11:50:42 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 29, 2020, 11:35:49 am ---@GeorgeOfTheJungle I have removed your post twice now. Do not post off-topic Youtube video.
If this thread does not attempt to stay on topic I'm going to lock it.

--- End quote ---
Please don't let one member spoil it for at least 10 others. I appeal to you not to lock this thread. I'm confident it serves a useful function for the Forum community generally.

--- End quote ---

Yea, for those that drink, it's the equivalent of drowning our sorrows 😂
Simon:

--- Quote from: MK14 on July 29, 2020, 11:58:05 am ---https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/

It makes an interesting read.

It explains how a person of colour, was upset, by the computer system, sending him, an email.
That basically said "automatic slave rekick.".

Which I can understand, made him feel bad.
So, he and another employee, requested and got Twitter, to change their naming policies.

Extract:

--- Quote ---Whitelist becomes allowlist.
Blacklist becomes denylist.
Master/slave becomes leader/follower, primary/replica or primary/standby.
Grandfathered becomes legacy status.
Gendered pronouns (for example "guys") become folks, people, you all, y'all.
Gendered pronouns (for example "he" or "his") become they or their.
Man hours becomes person hours or engineer hours.
Sanity check becomes quick check, confidence check or coherence check.
Dummy value becomes placeholder value or sample value.
--- End quote ---

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these people, they are some right "samples" aren't they.....
paulca:
On the HR thing about, well, basically asking you to self declare your membership of certain groups or declaring you would like to be labelled one way or other...

I don't want any of those labels and I don't want to declare my "belonging", indentity or even "association" with those labels or groups.

So if I later found out that I was automatically labelled white and male, those are fairly apparent and do, I believe, form at least part of my legal identity and could be determined from, say, my passport.  Then that's okay.

If however they label me as "Straight, Cis Gender, Christian, British male", well then there is a problem, even if they do not apply policies or behave towards me, or assume my behaviour towards others based on that.  It fundamentally breaks human rights in EXACTLY the same way that the are claiming to be trying to prevent.

The hypocrisy and paradox of the extreme right, far left.

I am me.  Nothing else.  I am an individual.  I don't want labelled other than,  I'm an engineer.  I do work for you.  You pay me.  I behave in a civil way towards my peers and everyone else.  I am to create a civil and productive environment and expect the same.  That is all I am willing to be.  I will not be labelled, filed, stamped or numbered that says otherwise.
MK14:

--- Quote from: Simon on July 29, 2020, 12:00:14 pm ---these people, they are some right "samples" aren't they.....

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You're right (and your example(s) is making the grammar, circuits of my brain, hurt really bad).
They haven't thought some bits of it, thoroughly enough.

But some of them work out, surprisingly well.
Such as:
Whitelist becomes allowlist.
Blacklist becomes denylist.
Man hours becomes person hours or engineer hours
Master/slave becomes leader/follower

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